The Uzbek SSR. Ziyauddinkhan ibn Eshon Babakhan (Ziyautdin Babakhanov), chairman of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, at the grave of his father, Eshon Babakhan ibn Abdulmajidkhan, Islamic religious figure, preacher, theologian, one of the founders and first chairman of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan.08.07.1970#5818854
The Uzbek SSR. Chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyautdin ibn Eshon Babakhan (Ziyautdin Babakhanov) receives guests.16.05.1970#5818861
The Uzbek SSR. Chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyautdin ibn Eshon Babakhan (Ziyautdin Babakhanov) with his family and relatives.16.05.1970#5818860
Madrassah Miri-Arab and the minaret of Kalyan. Architectural ensemble of Poi-Kalyan (XII-XVI cc.) in Bukhara.01.05.1970#731291
Group of preschool children with a teacher from one of the kindergartens in Bukhara.01.04.1970#731280
The Uzbek SSR. Chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyautdin ibn Eshon Babakhan (Ziyautdin Babakhanov) receives a mosque worker.16.03.1970#5818859
The Uzbek SSR. Chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyautdin ibn Eshon Babakhan (Ziyautdin Babakhanov) gives advice to a Tashkent resident.08.03.1970#5818858
Building water conduit tunnels during construction of the Nurek hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River in the Tajik SSR.01.03.1970#6264264
Dump trucks with ore for filling in the dam during construction of the Nurek hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River in the Tajik SSR.01.03.1970#6264259
Construction equipment building a water conduit tunnel during construction of Nurek hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River in the Tajik SSR.01.03.1970#6264249
The Tajik SSR. The unfinished Nurek hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River as seen from its lower pool.01.03.1970#6264247
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Ashgabat Experimental Carpet Factory of the Turkmenkover Production Association. Carpet makers discuss selection of wool for a new carpet with Chief Designer Dzhuma Redzhepov.08.10.1969#5940482
M.Ziaullah, Vice Mayor of Karachi, Lieutenant-General K.M.Sheikh, head of Islamabad's construction works and delegation's head, A.M.Sayed, Mayor of Lahore, M.Sharafatullah, Mayor of Chittagong (from left to right) at the Eternal Flame in Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery of Leningrad.01.08.1969#607313
Mayor of Chittagong M.Sharafatullah, Vice mayor of Karachi M.Ziaullah, head of the delegation and head of Islamabad's construction works Lieutenant-General K.M.Sheikh; Mayor of Lahore A.M.Sayed (from left to right) in front of the Aurora Cruiser in Leningrad.01.08.1969#607257
Frunze city, now Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz SSR. Photo: The building of the Polytechnic School.25.07.1969#6659503
Frunze city, now Bishkek. The main building of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR cluster, completed in the republican capital in the 1960s. Such elements as sun-blinds were used in Kyrgyzstan for the first time.25.07.1969#6659502
Turkmen SSR. The first solar watermaker with a watering device for animals, developed by employees of the Giprovodkhoz National Institute of the USSR Ministry of Water Resources together with scientists from the National Scientific Research Institute of Power Sources (now Kvant) and specialists from the Physics and Technical Institute of the Turkmen SSR Academy of Sciences. Solar panels desalter. The Bakharden state farm. Central Karakum.05.07.1969#6666677
Turkmen SSR. The first solar watermaker with a watering device for animals, developed by employees of the Giprovodkhoz National Institute of the USSR Ministry of Water Resources together with scientists from the National Scientific Research Institute of Power Sources (now Kvant) and specialists from the Physics and Technical Institute of the Turkmen SSR Academy of Sciences. Solar panels desalter. The Bakharden state farm. Central Karakum.05.07.1969#6666675
Khalima Kanilova, participant in the First Spartakiada of Central Asian countries, starting.01.09.1968#34685
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. House walls decorated with ganch carving (ganch is a mixturre of clay and gypsum).22.07.1968#5889213
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic. Uzgen prayer tower. 11th century. Uzgen Historical, Cultural, Architectural and Archaeological Center.03.07.1968#5935994
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic. Uzgen mausoleums. 11th century. Uzgen Historical and Cultural, Architecture and Archaeology Center.02.07.1968#5935466
A frame from the motion picture "The usurer's death" after the story by Sadriddin Aini. Studio Tajikfilm. 1966. Director Takhir Sabirov. Zakhir Dustmatov, People's artist of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (right) as usurer Kori-Ishkamba.01.07.1968#771445
Bimbolat Vatayev (left) as Murad and Abbas Bakirov as Agzamkhan in K.Yarmatov's film "The Poem of Two Hearts". Uzbekfilm. 1966.01.12.1967#777473
The Uzbek SSR. Photo: Members of a foreign delegation visit the Library of the Spiritual Muslim Board of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, now the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, in Tashkent in Tashkent and admire the Quran.23.11.1967#6142015
The Al-Biruni Institute of Asian Studies of the Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences (today's Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences). Research Fellow Abdulladzhan Dzheunaniardiyev deciphers ancient manuscripts.22.08.1967#6140590
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. The cultural center at the Vladimir Leinin Collective Farm in the Proletarsky District of the Leninabad Region (now Dzhabbar-Rasulovsky District of the Sughd Region). Director of the collective farm is Abdugafur Samatov, Hero of Socialist Labor and member of the USSR Supreme Council.22.07.1967#6140595
Trainer Luigi Bezano performing at the Moscow State Circus (now the Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard).01.06.1967#5714178
The Samanid Mausoleum in Bukhara's historical center built at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries during the rule of Ismail Samani, 892-907. The oldest monument of the Central Asian monumental architecture. Uzbek SSR.16.03.1967#6652219
The Turkmen SSR. Photo: Fishing vessels on Lake Yaskhan in the West Karakum region.25.07.1966#6102957
A portrait of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) reconstructed from his skull by anthropologist, archaeologist and sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov. Reproduction. Bottom right is the Russian edition of Ibn Sina's "The Canon of Medical Science".01.04.1966#728822
Actress Sholpan Altaybaeva plays the role of Leila in the film "Wings of Song" directed by Mambetov, Azerbaijan. Film studio Kazakhfilm, 1966.01.02.1966#789658
Actress Torgyn Tasibekova as Sabrina in the film "Wings of Song" directed by Mambetov, Azerbaijan. Film studio Kazakhfilm, 1966.01.02.1966#789657
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. The Central Asian Railway runs through the Karakum Desert.12.08.1965#5730610
Minaret of a mosque located in Derbent,Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.01.08.1965#735008
Actress Leila Shikhlinskaya as Gulchohra in the movie "Arshin Mal Alan", directed by Tofik Taghi-Zadeh at Film Studio Azerbaijanfilm 1965.01.08.1965#789656
First Republican exhibition poster. Reproduction of the triptych "People! Vietnam is on fire!" by artist Nikolai Alexandrov.01.07.1965#878951
The Ukrainian SSR. A baby nilgai/Indian antelope has been born at Askania-Nova biosphere reserve.27.06.1965#5562047
Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, addressing the delegates of the 4th conference of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization with a complimentary speech.05.05.1965#793683
